Library Information Services category: 2034 books
Library Linked Data
Research and Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Computers increasingly collect, manage, and analyze data for scholarly research. Linked data gives libraries the ability to support this e-research, making it a powerful tool. Libraries are at a tipping point in adoption of linked data, and this issue of Library Technology Reports explores current research...
Special Libraries: A Survival Guide
A Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Learn why special or corporate libraries must align with their parent organizations in order to survive in these difficult economic times—and how to foster and demonstrate this critical relationship.
• Presents case studies of corporate and other special library reductions and closures...
Inside, Outside, and Online
Building Your Library Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Inside, Outside, and Online provides practical advice and inspiration for building community with your library. Based on a scan of the community and technology environments that libraries operate within, related literature, and the practical experiences of hundreds of library staff actively building...
iPads® in the Library: Using Tablet Technology to Enhance Programs for All Ages
Using Tablet Technology to Enhance Programs for All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Looking for a programming guide for computer tablet use in the library setting? This book provides detailed plans and instructions with specific literacy goals for child, teen, and adult audiences—exactly what librarians seeking to integrate iPad and other tablet use into their programs need.
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by Virginia Ann Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Discover important Internet resources for research data made public individually and collectively by researchers from a variety of entities in the fields of environmental studies and ecology
Online Ecological and Environmental Data explores innovative projects from a diverse array of institutions...
Fundamentals of Government Information
Mining, Finding, Evaluating, and Using Government Resources, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Government data and resources are uniquely useful to researchers and other library users. But without a roadmap, sifting through the sheer quantity of information to find the right answers is foolhardy. The first edition of this text is well established as an essential navigational tool for both LIS...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Once treated as exclusive spaces for valuable but hidden and under-utilized material, over the past few decades special collections departments have been transformed by increased digitization and educational outreach efforts into unique and highly visible major institutional assets. What libraries must...
by Linda S Katz
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Every librarian who teaches in an academic library setting understands the complexities involved in partnering with teaching faculty. Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians recounts the efforts of librarians and faculty working together in disciplines across the board to create...
Map Librarianship
A Guide to Geoliteracy, Map and GIS Resources and Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Map Librarianship identifies basic geoliteracy concepts and enhances reference and instruction skills by providing details on finding, downloading, delivering, and assessing maps, remotely sensed imagery, and other geospatial resources and services, primarily from trusted government sources. By offering...
The Heart of Librarianship
Attentive, Positive, and Purposeful Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Adaptation to change that’s based on thoughtful planning and grounded in the mission of libraries: it’s a model that respected LIS thinker and educator Michael Stephens terms “hyperlinked librarianship.” And the result, for librarians in leadership positions as well as those working on the front...
Cruising the Library
Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic...
Law Firm Librarianship
Issues, Practice and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
The legal information environment is deep, wide, and dynamic with many participants, including courts, parliaments, legislatures, and administrative bodies. None exemplifies the agile, knowledge-engaging legal player better than the law firm. Current, authoritative information is essential for the...
by James Powell
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Graphs are about connections, and are an important part of our connected and data-driven world. A Librarian's Guide to Graphs, Data and the Semantic Web is geared toward library and information science professionals, including librarians, software developers and information systems architects who...
Going Digital
Strategies for Access, Preservation, and Conversion of Collections to a Digital Format
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Going Digital: Strategies for Access, Preservation, and Conversion of Collections to a Digital Format offers you succinct and analytic views of the problems and benefits of digital resources in the traditional academic library. Library administrators, collection managers, and librarians will learn...